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• Arts and Culture
• Paint and Sculpture
• 01 / 04 / 2007

Alberto Lescay, the leader of this institution, together with Nelson Domínguez, Eduardo Roca (Choco), Mario Trenard, the German Marco Flierl and the master foundry worker Fernando Yero, have been the main characters of these sculptures that also imply theoretical and practical exchanges and have generated the pieces that are now exhibited in this exhibition.

In order to make these work, the artists virtually moved to the installations of the Caguayo Foundation, where up to now the sand system was being used. This system is very economic and very appropriate to achieve high levels of details in the creation of medium or high sizes of sculptures, such as the sculptures of John Lennon, in El Vedado (author: José Villa) and of José Martí in the Anti-Imperialist Tribune (author: Andrés González) as well as the Cimarrón (Runaway Slave) and the Antonio Maceo, both of them in Santiago de Cuba and made by Lescay.

Even though it is very old, the to the wax melting system is considered more perfect than others, because it permits to achieve, through the incorporation of modern materials, more detailed and smaller pieces. Some artists qualified it as invaluable for reproductions, while Lescay himself considers that its use covers "a need of Cuban sculptors."

The practical part of these encounters is made in the Caguayo workshops, in Dos Caminos, San Luis, a foundry that appeared during the 1980's under the name of Taller de Artes Monumentales y Aplicadas René Valdés Cedeño (Monumental and Applied Arts Workshop René Valdés Cedeño) and considered to be one of the few in the region of the Caribbean dedicated entirely to the artistic-professional work. During all this time there have been theoretical conferences on the topic and exchanges with art students and professors in places such as Holguín and Guantánamo. The idea is for this project to get new creators added.

Source: Granma